For South Asian Heritage Month 2025, Hackney Libraries with Atlantic Books present What Will People Think?- In conversation with Vedashree Khambete-Sharma.

For this exclusive event, Khambete-Sharma will be reading from her book What Will People Think? and discussing her writing process with Amina Pirbhai from Hackney Libraries.

What Will People Think? is a warm and witty novel about community, family and love - as if Jane Austen wrote about 1970s Bombay. Detailing life in the Vile Parle district of Mumbai, a bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre's mother is determined to get her four daughters married off as soon as possible. As we follow the Bendre sisters from dinners to parties to weddings, from Vile Parle to Pune, will love eventually conquer all in this ingeniously witty and charming tale of pride, prejudice and puran polis?

Join us Online on Friday 5 August from 6pm-7.30pm